N.B. tables surplus budget

New Brunswick tables $10.2 billion budget with a surplus The New Brunswick government tabled a $10.2-billion budget Tuesday that projects a $129.3 million reduction in the province’s net debt. Finance Minister Ernie Steeves presented the fiscal plan as the Opposition Liberals promised to vote against it in a bid to topple the minority Progressive Conservative […]
Mall space going dark

Online shopping, rising taxes take bite out of retail space There is now 1.2 million square feet of vacant retail space in Metro Vancouver, with more than half of that — 683,669 square feet — going dark in regional malls, such as Oakridge, as well as Burnaby’s Amazing Brentwood and the City of Lougheed, according […]